Text 3116, 32 rader
Skriven 2008-04-15 06:31:40 av Frank Reid (1536.fidoftscpubl)
   Kommentar till text 3112 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Re: Proper nodelist format for Internet-only nodes?
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 > For quite some years people used the limited qualities of the
D'Bridge
 > editor to get on my back all the time and complain ... to me.
 >
 > They didn't write to the author but to the user to take care of the 
 > problem.
 
Completely irrelevant.  Again, you refuse to accept that this truncation
was a design decision.  The author of the BBS *chose* to truncate the
quoted lines within its simple, internal line-editor rather than
reformatting paragraphs or allowing spillover onto subsequent lines.
(Personally, it bugs me far more when a quoter reformats my paragraphs
and removes my deliberately added double-spaces between sentences and
ellipses...  and most seem to be guilty of that.)

SBBS is one of (if not the) most actively supported BBS software today.
Changes are committed nightly to CVS.  The system has myriad interfaces
that make it attractive and usable for newcomers to our hobby, including
full web accessibility, a multitude of standards-based protocols
(including NNTP which I use), RSS feeds, mail lists, etc.  The author
continues to support it actively as a hobby.  If any of the system users
considered it important, they could submit a patch to the editor to
treat these differently, but there's no reason the author would
necessary accept that.  Again, he has made a design decision on how he
treats quoted lines, and it really doesn't matter a whit what you think.

These types of arguments frustrate me.  If your goal is to keep
newcomers out of Fidonet by browbeating them on the nuances of software
they can't change, you're succeeding.  Perhaps you should require that
everyone joining Fidonet also know Morse code?
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